On 02/21/2013 11:54 AM, Evan Sather wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Ever since I installed the newest SL 6 kernel 
> (2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64) on some of my NFS4 client desktops (Which 
> connect to NFS4 servers) last week, I have a problem with launching 
> applications, such as Gnote and Pidgin.  When I have tried to launch 
> either of these applications, the client's /var/log/messages file 
> becomes flooded with:
>
>     Feb 11 16:04:55 hostname kernel: nfs4_reclaim_open_state: Lock
>     reclaim failed!
>
> The flooding of the messages file stops when I terminate the process 
> of the application.  I have not had this problem on any other kernel 
> version aside from this newest one.
>
> Does anyone else use NFS4 servers and have seen the same problem on 
> SL6 clients running the 2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64 kernel?
> -- 
> *Evan Sather*
> Linux System Administrator
> High Energy Physics
> Argonne National Laboratory

I haven't seen this bug, but I know there are a few nfs4 fixes in 6.4 
(currently building).  I'd encourage you to keep an eye out for an Alpha 
announcement on the devel list.  If you are able to use them on this 
sytem, packages there may fix this.

Pat

-- 
Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer